The Sun. — London, England, 1809-07-07 00:00:00

_ . ttchdu e CHAtEs r ijsfeared on t re . . igth, and forced him to evacuateiVienna. ,Another account states, that the Archduke . has published a' proclarnation, , statink that the Russians and Prussians were about to join him against the common enemy of Europe. We are sorry to say that very little dit is due to these Reports; indeed the former one is obviously unfounded, for the-Twentieth French Bulletin is dated the 20th ult. which - is one day after the total defeat of the French is said to have taken place. With, respeet to the report about the Rus sians, we fear that there is .now little reason to hope that the Emperor ALEXANDER will adopt that line of Condud, which would be most consistent with his own interest and honour; and we confess that'we cannot view the approach of a consid'6able Russian army towards the rear of the Austrianas, without some apprehensien: We. hai'e often had occasion to mention the dis contents which prevail in Holland against the new Order of things introduced by France, and the latest accoant of the state of that country.shews that it is ripe for revolt, and would most probably seize with eagerness on any opportunity of getting rid of its oppressive Gallic yoke. It seems, . from - the infor riiation of a Gentleman who recently arrived from the COntinenr, that the Dutch Rulers are apiwehen. , Sive that a Secret Expedition is on foot for the inva s!on of their country, and have been adopting satite• measures of &fence. Among other preparationi, large battery is erecting about seven miles froth Am aterdam, and a multiplicity of hands are, at work, driving enormous piles in the earth, to reitilar the embankment more secure. A coniiderable number srhall batteries siirronnd the city on the land side; so as to render it very difficult oF-attes's; If not impregnable. About .4000 men, atiirWh i Pi f who were employed at Stralsund against the heroic SCHILL, are encamped in the vtinity Of threcht. Ile alarm is said to have strongly impressed poor King Lonis, who W . ds then in Guelderlawd, but who was goon e4eCied to take a tour to FrankfOrt On the Iqaine; to join the congregation of fngitive-Princes snow at that place. Nothing; it appeari, had actually taken place, when the Gentle Man left Holland, against Government but the public mind was worked up to a pitch of indignation and bitterness, zn consequence of the severe privations which the people have endured, and the extinction of cony- • Xnerce; except from the connivance'at sinus tin' which had been deemed necessary to keep theni in some degree of order, notwithStanding all the rigid becreei and RestriCtions impo s ed by kV ' OgiPARTE. . . , • A letter of the 12th tilt: from Riga, confirms the former intelligence we had received of the severity of theßussian Commissioners appointed to. - examine the papers of the shipping entering the ports in the Onlphs of Riga and , . . It apPeafs, by a letter of the 2d Sttly, that. an Ex edition, con s i st i ng on l y of 40 of the military, from eligoland to the neighbouring coast of the Conti. ! dent, had been attended with some success. • This small party seized upon a vessel and cargo of .the !ague of 00,0001. ,hut having no Means of reinoving the ship, they destroyed it, after distributino its dm tenti Amongt he fishermen and villagers in t he , neigtf;- bntirliond. These enterprising visitors then returned to the island unmolested. Intelligence has been.ieceived from •Corunna - of 36 late a date a 3 the 30th NEY and .SOULT had e-Pfeded.a juner.on of their forees, but their united strength being reduced to little more than 12,000', filen; they ti ere prixipitastely !lying to av oi d the Vengeance with which they found themselms so seriously menaced. They retreated 'in the ,first in- • stare into Leon and the adjacent pir - t3 of the. Asturias, and on the 26th there remained mita sin gle French . corpS in,Gallicia. Their sick, and .wound ed amounted to npwards of 6000, and for the 'con veyance of these every species of vehicle had been put in requisition. Of the a&.ion lately.faught in Gen. .between .the armies o f G e n . BLAKE and SOUCHET, the following authentic particulars have been communi cated :—.The enemy's force consisted of 8500 men,: . including 500 cavalry, with three pieces of cannon; the Spanish of 9600, including 600 cavalry, with twenty pieces of cannon. The enemy's loss was, considerable. Upwards of 200 dead were buried, independent of those left dead on the field of battle. In th e night of the 24th they retreated. Some as occasioned an alarm amongst them, and in the confusion they fired upon each othe. -The road towards St. Pierre was strewed lar.Ax . with knapsacks.—' was a's army was incr ease d to nearly 20,000 ;- he expe&ed to enter Saragossa, and it was sup pose'd all the French would soon mire behind the Ebro. • • CAPTAIN BARCLAy..—There were strong reports in London last night unfavourable to Captain Bar. day, bnt our information froth Newmarket is as re-. cent as ten o'clock yesterday morning,: ,When 'pedestrian was going on with every prospect of 'ulti mate success, although his ground was deluged by the heavy falls. , of rain. .As the time for the con clusion of the race approaches, the Captain is the more incommoded with visitors, and he good-na turedly told them yesterday, that he should be happy to see then after next Wednesday. Mr. Webster, who betted the stake with the Captain, set off for Newmarket yesterday. During the violent thunder storm' at about half past two o'clock on Tuesday, the house of Captain SMITH, at East-hill, Herts, took fire by the light Ling communicating to the bell-wires of the first- floor. The room was in one blaze before the (1 , -nt was discovered, and the house was burnt to the ground. Not a remnant of furniture was saved, ex eept that on the ground-fluor. ai,'t T'• 7 A N A VAL INT E Vti . . POR T S MO tr1:11, JULY 6.—Arrived this day his Ma . jesty's ships Atoukir, Alfred, and Achilles, from the Eastward to join the Expedition assembling at • this Port. . . . The Hardy and Dapper gun-brigs arrived from the Downs. . • . . The Sceptre of 74 guns, is also arrived at Spit head, from the Downs, to join the 'Expedition. Troops are daily assembling here, and encamping on South Sea Common and in Stokes bay, prepara tory to embarkation on boatd the men of war and rfansports. Between 40 and 50 sail of transports arrived yes terday from Lisbon; and which .are . mostly come into harbour to fit out with all poSsible dispatch. Drafts of seamen from the men of war have been dispatched to the. Downs and Chatham, to bring round the small,guti , boats which are to be employed • on the Expedition. This day the Gannet ,sloop of war, which came home with dispatches from Gibraltar, was `released from quarantine. The IVeynzouth store-ship remains under quaran tine at the 1 .110 her Bank. Arrived the Driver, -; and from Dungarvon ; the Speculation, WHEELER ; and Ho ratio, --) tram Guernsey ; Hopewell, PAIN, from Waterford. PLYMOUTH, JULY 5. --- Arrived the 'American schooner, Betsey, BARTLETT', -from St. Michael's, laden with fruit; the American ship Maria, -, from, New-York ; and the American ship John, FAR,LEY, from Boston, laden with turpentine, tim ber, &c. all bound to this port ; and the - Friends, Goss, from Wildly. Passed by. this Port, to the Eastward, the Swal=. low sloop of war, Capt. Milner, with a fleet from ,L;ishon. Sailed the Mbrristown hired, armed brig with a Convoy for-Wales. DEAL, JULY .6. Arrived his Majesty's ships Blake, rielorious, and Druid, from a cruize. Sailed the Flora, STODDART, for Grenada; Walker, Rostsnosi, for Lisbon ; and the Tifight, PA4uNS, for Portsmouth! under convoy of the Furious gun brig. FA LIVOUTII, JULY 4.—Arrived his Majesty's brig Peacock from Plymouth ; and the Duke of Montrose packet from Cadiz, in 24 days. SHEERNESS, 'JULY 6.—Sailed his Majesty's ships bryaci and Sic:lira, Proteotor and Deilizder Gun brigs. Arrived his Majb4y's ship Rolla, having received daMage from some vessel running foul of her. , Went out of harbour his Majesty's ship Salsette. The Ulysses and Salsette are paying up to six Months. A Court Martial was held on board the Magna rime, to try Mr..rottN HINKs; Carpenter of his Ma jesty's ship Nymphen, for drutikenness. The charges being fusy proved, he was sentenced to be broke, and to sdrve before the mast in any ship the Com mander in Chief should think proper. • • Ariived his M a j esty's ship Gluckstadt from golnnd ; also just arrived at the Great Nom,' fri gate, name not known. . . RAMSGATE, JULY 4.---0116 squadron of the lath, (or. Prince of Wales's Light Dragoons), commanded by Captain MORGAN, marched in here to-day, to etn bark immediately as soon as the trans/Nadi This gallant regiment will send abroad three squa drons, consisting of as fine then' and horses as ever left the country. POETRr. IMPROMPTU. Like I C;;TIS poor WARDLE fain woyiclsoar fie n.ounted, fell, aiicl);Ow can rise no more; .. YetdifPrenr causes brouglu clleir common fate`-- One weak in w i ng, and t'other weok.intate. • • • It I can hardly be. doubled' that the tiaiiOna. sellers who have ,filled th e i r windoWs with repre 7 sentations of a certain Patriot, will feel for their . brother tradesman, Mr. WRIGHT, the Upholsterer,. and no longer suffer the Portrait of such a species of Reformer to mingle with the representations of men whose worth and talents do honour to the country. It is said that SAN DON has-coniMenced proceed ings against Mrs. CLA R KE, for obtaining money from him upon "false pretences," in the case of FREN d fl'S levy. Such a trial must give rise to much curious discussion,. COOKE has been s o s U cc essftil . in hiS exertions a t Liverpool, du r i ng t h e last three Weeks, that the , Managers of the Theatre at that place have presented Mm with an elegant piece of. Plate, with an inscrip tion \testifying their sense of the value of his_ ser vices. We do not know whethar_ this - , gift was in the form of a sup. It is, however, but justice to this Atior to state, that no, person in the profession has beet's more ready to assist his brethren of ,the sock and btiskin, and 'no peison can boast o f so many gifts of giatlinde from iiidivitlnals for whom he has exerted his abilltied, The,appearance throughont Ireland general has been improved in a remarkable degree by the late rain ; it wears a' general aspeal of promise, in a luxu riant and abundant harvest ; the fruit has, however, been . considerably blighted by the severity of the tempest w Lich ushered in last month. „, .; • LVD Li iiPPOR . JTMENIS, YesterdaY a General Court of Proprietors was held the India Hotise, for the purpose of taking into ,consideration the means for preventing the purchase Or sale of Appointments in the Company's Civil Or Military Service. , Mr. RANDLE ItCl4 01. v rose, for the purpose of sub m itting to the Prop r i e t ors an d the Court of Dire&ors a Resolution on the SubjeCt. He began with review irk,- the circumsta n ces w hi c h l e d to the appointment of b a CoMmittee of the House of Commons, to in quire, into the abuses which had taken place in the exercise - of East' India Patronage, and commented at considerable length. on the offences in the':sale afid purchase of th e .C ompan y' s civil and military offices, which were disclosed in the'Report of that Committee. The CoMmittee, - in their Report 'had observed, that they did not recommend any legisla tive. Measure, with the view of putting an end to these corrupt pradices; thiS they conceived to be in the power of the Directors themselves; and , they added that without an increased vigilance on the part of the liireators to look after the nominations to offices, it was quite impossible that these pradices could be e fealually stopped. It will depend then, said Mr. Jack son, upon our condud, whether • such abuses shall continue rank and inveterate a§ before; or whether they shall receive any 'effeaual check. It was not necessary for hiin to say much of the nature and 0(. 7 tent of the evil. This sale and purahase of offices was certainly a kind of traffick, as odious as it was disgusting a n d p ern i c i ous. The oext thing was to Consider the remedy. And here he did not mean to rafted on any Director. But it must be manifest, that for a long period back, the• Directors had given their nominations, and young men been admitted with little or no enquiry. It was not surprising, therefore, that these tra'flickers in places should be so audacious in their proceedings, when they were aware that few or no questions would be asked, as to the propriety of the nomination or ap pointment. Besides, as matters were concluded, it would haVe been considered as quite an affront, by a DireCtor, if the Court had asked him what were his motives for any particular appointment. He had ► heard of a Diredor, who, on one. occasion, had Merely said to the Clerk, " Pass this young man for a Bengal Writership ;" and this was the whole of the examination. In the Report of the*CoMmittee of the House of Commons, it also appeared, that a Cler gyman asked 'a Diredor for a Cadetship, not be cause he had a young man in view, of high spirit and good education, but merely to oblige a Miss Spinluff. Tile Director gave it, though he never saw' the young man,. and she sold it for money. By way of dire for this evil, lie should propose that these youog men should be O resente d, and chosen in an open 'Court of Diiedors, where the whole Cdurt may !mean oppoitunity of. putting questions to the Di rector who dominates, as to the char - Peter, qualifica tions, and coonexionsof every 'individual ; and also, thit even with regard to those who had been admit ted to the Coll ege at H ert f or d , every thing should del pend on their chara&er and conduct while there.— This was the ordeal which he wished them to go through. He alS o p ro p ose d t h at every Direetor who ' nominated a Candidate, should endorse On,his pea-- lion some such declaration as thefollOwing I' A. B. have examined into the charader, qualificatioos, and connexions of C. D. and recommend him as a fit person to receive such and such an appoint ment." And that when this Candidate was called., in,-he should be examined on all these points in . open Cott% and that every MeMber of the Court should have the right of putting what questions he pleased to the bireaor who gave the nomination. He could hardly suppose that any man who was' consci9us that. he had broken the A6l of-Parliament and committed perjury would have the boldness to meet his Brother Direaors, and, pass such an ordeal of examination as this. The Company could not be too eircurnspea in sending out those,who, at a future period, might be entrusted with the command of armies - , the government of .districts, and upon,whose character and conduct the 'happiness of millions migh (depend. So numerous were these appointments to Cadet Ships and Writerships, that he calculated if they had been all sold within the last six. years, at the price which had been fixed in the market of corrupt sale, they would have brought-the enormous sum Of .1,600,0001. He contended also, that it was quite illegal.for the bireCtors to present nominations to the President of the Board of Controul, or any of the Members of that Board. 'By the Act of 1786, the servants of the Crown were to. have no share ,what- ever in these appointments;. and it: was cluite unfit that those who Were .16 have the controul over the Dire:dors, should receive any favours from them. The patronage should be solely confined to the Com-. pany, and not irriparted, to Ministers. Were this praCtice continued, it, wculd afford the enemies of the Cot - Opal - 1y" , a handle to-accuse them Of corruption, and be used as an argument against the renewal of their Charter. It should be reeolleded, ,that little more than 160 years ago Sir T. CoOke, then at the head. of the .East India Company, Was, proved, ' by a Coru mince of he Honseaf commons to have expended' 100,0001. of. the Company's money among. Mem,. bers of Parliament, and the King's Ministers, for the purpose of obtaining a new Charter, and that.. on this ground the Parliament thought fit, to establish . n new East India Company,. The Duke of Leeds, one of Ale Ministers of th a t d ay; was.also impeach-. ed on the very groUnd of having re ce i ve d, a s h are o f the money so' : corruptly, diFaributed,. Lel,us consi, der what advan'tag'es the enemies of' the Company.. Wand they are .numerous) will have ~when they can state that this or that duteur was given to Lord Mel, vine, and this appointment, ,or that nomination,, placed at the disposal of Lord Harrowby, or Lord Castlereagh. '4 . • Mr. JAcKsoconCluded his speech' with proposing the following ,Resolution : . . " That this Conn having taken into its Consideration. the Report.of the Committeeofthe House of Common's, cannot help expressing th e ir deep regret at the corrupt transactions there exposed ; whiid they observe with pleasure that the implication in s uc h Diredors are e to x ft il ci r ii e sr s cc s t l io y mu . a rpr e e q at6 , riej i o t , t i cre o c n o id f t e h d a e l ki y pa o r f t o o r pi t n h i e on o , irtehgras g ab re u a s t e e s r . deg' T re ll e a is absblutely necessary ; and therefore, that all Candidates for Civil and Military Appointments be henceforth examined and chosen in au open• Court of Diredors, 'in which a full enquiiy shall be made as to their charader, qualification,and cormedions, the petition of every Candidate being previously endorsed by the Director whO gives the nornination; and finally, that the names of Cadets and Writers appointed, shall be subMitted to this Court every year." Major SCOTT seconded the Resolution ; and ex premi a strong wish, that th4,‘ Dire tors would look cut . leer candidate:3.f° aepoin!aeents among tltc r. lies of those of their militate ' Servants In the Een, who were but-so Met Mei ly .pt o eid e A l f er . e • , Mr. 'Lowtthes spoke to the same effe'il; aiei . •re e gt - etted •t hat the - roa ri. ime servants of the ComOny wese so poorly ,provided ti,r. He had knownea man who bad been ; 4.5,7 years Mate of an' •indiarrefie and had-retired; Witlet» any recompence for his Fong and - faithtul services. . He. paid the highest reonreli , :, ments, to the Learned Gentleman who had brought forward this Resokition. , • f-1 had bt.tilf as itev - vereen new ship 'on the old East India Comp in t •'S batter:xi'. He hoped that all the filth and cobwebs of ',the ship would be swept away, so t hat. the India Gain, PaliSr.y. instead of beingilletd.ont as an Atigean stable, would be held up as the ,adriairation 'of Mankind.' • Mr: S. Dixon"thought it much .fitter that re'eela. tions of this kind should originate wit:i the tors than with the Cottle of Proprietors. •He there* fore thought the Resolution should be; r.ither in t i de form of recommendation than order ; At the sanie' time he aScribed the corrupt praelices whiCh - had now-been deteEted, to the neglect of the - DireaorS themselves. e • e • • Mr. P. Mooßs said, he had listendd with g;tea:t surprise to the doCtrines of the Hon. Gentleman whb spOke last: It Would have be: i Wellfer hint to have known a little more of the Constie_eion of . of the Company before he spoke; for it ~ vc-e; ;Le very essence - of that Constitution that sue' , it.. 9 (ions as the present should - originate with ihe Coe. of Proprietors, and be confirmed by , the Directote. Besides; the Gentleman's inconsistency etThs quite evidente for while he charged the Direetors with neglect ; he opposed the resolution; ' which was in tended to prevent it in future. • The Res o l ut i on pro posed by hiS lear ne d and eloquent Friend Met with his unqualified approbation. _ Mr. GRANT, (the Chairinan,) said,. that after hav, ing dwelt so strongly, on several late occasions, on ,the necessity of putting a stop to these corruPt prae-e .tices, it could hardly be susreeted that he shduid objeet to the present •Resolui ion. He must siv, ' how- , ever, that .the Court of 'Directors were entitl e d I d some credit for the steps they had already taken to . effed this purpnse. ...The - late EnqUiry by a Com niittee of the House of - 06trinions had Originated. with them, .and they had zliready resolved on m e w . • sures 'for' checking these abuses, as fir as lay in their - power. But, though he approved of the Resolu. tion in general, he thotight the wording .ot intirew out some reflections on the. Court of Dilectors, which were not merited ; for if he were tO detail the ‘' steps which the Diredurs Lad already taken, he Lic: lieVed they would oot be accused of any laxity.— Since '• this business broke out, the Dir‘-tors lidd formed new regulations, for the express purpose Of - putting an end toethese prd.atit.es. With tegart to the company's school at Hertford, the a,imissteri io it was not considered as an' irrevocable grant of an !: official appointment, for that was cond:tional, anti- . depended on the behaviour and conduit Of the pupils% themselves; and there had been inseme.2s.tn k% tee, from • impropriety of belia.4oer, these .young men had been 'obliged to withdraw from- the . setnithir ) As to the placing at the disposal of the Presi.,e t' of the Beard Of Controul, a nomination or two, .froin time to time, he thought _this a Matter of no great importance. It could hardly' be. cone . trued as any thing like corruption,. and should t et h er b e cons.der- ' ed as proceeding from a' wish, to eon, parti cnlarly as the Direalors sometimes totind themselves . compelled to oppose the measures of Ministers...._ The fads to which his Honourable Friend had al luded, relating to Sir T. Cooke,. and the puhlic • characters of his time, were a decisive proof that at t that period politiCal corruption was much more pre- %Went than at present. . one Gentleman had re comMended, that in. appointments the preference should be given -to the sons of the Company's • tary Servants. Now, Ile believed .there was 'no military service in .the' world so well rewarded as'. that of the Company ;acid he could: never, consent • that the motives for exertion )?.141c1 be diminished, • by giving eicltisive encouragement to, hereditary claims. With regard. to the present R eso l ut i on, . he was certain'that the Conti of Directors would -give it every support, for the purpose of carrying it into effeCt. . IL , . . , After some further,discUssioni the Resolution was and unanimously agreed-to. . . . Mr. -Jicksol4 then moiled a Res o l u ti on, giving the thanks of the Court of Proprietor 4 to O. Smith, Esq. M. P. who nioved,in the . House Of Cominons fOr the appointment of 019 Committee-of Inquiry;, to' Charles Grant, Esq. M. P. who seconded the Motion ; and 'to the other Direet.ors, being Members, who - supported it. this Resolution was also agreed to, and Mr. Smith and Mr. Grant returned their thanks to thO - Court. A third motion Was agreed • to,. for, publishing in' all the .Newspipeis the above Resolutions, agreed to by the Court of Proprietors, together with all such regulations tis may have lately been adopted by the DireEtors, lin order to attain the same object, Of pre venting the` continuance of abuses. the Court then adjourned till the 14th instant.' The quarterly- Dividends will be paid ,this day and to-morrow at the Bank to Banliers, acid on Monday to the Pnblic in vneral: SMITHFIELD MARKET, JULY 7.. . This day's . market was not. well supplied with different kinds of Cattle ; Beef. is . dearer than our last report ; Veal is .cheaper; Mutton, I f amb, and Pork, sold at last prices , ;'. add the trade for the mastpart was not over briSk.—Tbe sales,in the Hay 'Market . were inconsiderable; H4,l%as, dropped in price since Monday's rna:ket;',,strAi and clover fetched laSt gubjnin a coned statement pf the prices and numbers :-- , Beef 4s. 8d: so 's, 8 0.—MpttOU 4s. 8,1. to 6d.—Veal As. od. to 6s. 6d.—Pork4s. Bd. t o 6s. ed.—Lmnb ss. Cs. od. to 7s. od. , and Lambs , 5,400. Calves, 130. Pigs, 24' 450.78h7ef SMITHFItLD HAY-,MJAIIXET. Hay sf. is. od. to 61. los. ,0t.1.-eS2AIK I 9I: Qs. 0d. 7 -Cloyet 61. cos. od. to 71. Jcs. ocr. • •.••••• ;os. cd. to sh CORN-EXCHANGE, JULY 7,--The 11Inket to-day has considerable remaining supplies of Wheat, most ly foreign, second and ordinary sales thereof are Made heavily at rather lower prices; Rye sotnewlut dearer; Bailey in _short supply at little variation; Beans of .the two kinds likewise ; vary few White Pease; • of Oats the su ppli es are considerable, mostly from kiciliand, but sorcery any tine; 1 - lour as our last.